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Safety in Schools

remains a mystery. Professor Ewing has studied juvenile murders for years and has written several books about this topic (Perrita...

Construction of the 'Perfect School'

that teachers willingly come to teach at, and that sends forth intelligent and thinking individual at graduation time. In ...

Math Education for Children with Special Needs Article Critiqued

observations in several different locations throughout the school over a period of three semesters. Each participant was also int...

Theory, Skills, and Standards of Physical Education

levels of health awareness and personal wellness goals. Students must understand how to best deal with stress, disease prevention ...

Reforming Education and Its Barriers

from families, teachers and others before it can implement much of anything, the good ideas end up becoming watered down. Unfortun...

Information for Those New to Teaching

geographic disciplinary perspectives in their academic training" (Towson University, nd). As an illustration of how this works, he...

Preschool and Kindergarten Best Practice Curriculum

to Schweinhart and Weikart (1990), effective and developmentally appropriate programs for children (they are discussing Head Start...

The American Infatuation with Violence

of violence against women due to popular culture and escalating violence throughout Americas school system. "Televisions role in ...

Elementary Classrooms, Technology, and Reading

thinking proficiency, encourage the use of writing skills to communicate with others, and improve research capabilities," says Wal...

Recessions and Keynesian Economics

this book, Keynes discussed the causes of unemployment and his theories regarding what governments should and should not do in har...

Students with Disabilities and Full Inclusion in Texas Schools

entries. RESULTS OF FINDINGS The testing gains for each of the 111 schools that were studied and are practicing full inclusion o...

Integrating the Theories of Blau, Blumer, and Mead

1930s (Abbott, 1997). One of the major influences within the Chicago School was George Herbert Mead of the Chicago philosophy depa...

Comparing Keynesian and New Classical Economics

stable inflation rate, and as such the position of some unemployment in an economy is accepted, and the natural level is when the ...

English Schools and the Teaching of Citizenship

too narrow-minded and limited. During the aftermath of September 11, it became increasingly evident that when terrorism touched o...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Education and Constructivism

which an individual learns and knows things, such as: * Knowing comes from the active and proactive nature of learners actions (Ho...

School Principal's Changing Roles

One study found that between 1988 and 1998, 42 percent of all the elementary school principals in the United States left their job...

The Gleaners by Jean François Millet

he was relatively ambivalent about any political aspects of his work (Internet source). Pioche writes: "Being of peasant stock, he...

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.'s In Search of Excellence Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

be functional both internally as well as externally in order to maximize their effectiveness and generate revenues. By using seve...

School Shootings

effects of sensational and exploitive news coverage of traumatized victims and terrified parents, these shootings deserve our atte...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Children: Safer From Online Predators At Home Or At School?

are alerted to any number of events encoded by the instructor. While this serves as a viable means by which to supervise a childs...

Balancing Management Control with a Positive Workplace

The good leader will nurture and encourage the team members, delegation will still take place, but the leader will still understan...

Single Sex Schools Should Not be Banned

the educators and the parents and the students decide, and leave the lawyers and judges out of it" (Hurd). However, its not that...

Curriculum Development

the goals that are applicable to it. For example, the district board specifies the goal to implement a "challenging curriculum" t...

Security Survey

well. Parking is at a premium as is the case on the fringes of most large universities, and there is a great deal of foot traffic...

Teaching About STIs to Young Teens

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

Contributing to Student Affairs Administration

ethnic or racial origin that is out of the mainstream, European-descended American culture and can therefore offer a diverse stude...

Using Technology In The Elementary School

scores on the states Comprehensive Assessment Report were strongly related to increases in technological use (Page, 2002, p. 389)....

A Sample Medical School Admissions Essay

pursue a lifetime of work in the medical field are at least twofold: For one thing, any relevant capacity certainly puts me in a u...